Tag: animation

July 18, 2016 · 1 comment

By Hugh David. There has never been a better time to be a media fan. Commentaries and spin-offs, blogs and podcasts can open up entire worlds of fandom, even to the hopeless couch potato. Long gone are the days when fan publications relied on obsessive collections of memorabilia, and the need to remember details a […]

July 3, 2016 · 1 comment

By Jonathan Clements. Although the title of Sean Macdonald’s new book is Animation in China: history, aesthetics, media, it keeps largely to an account of the group of animators and facilities that formed the nucleus of the Shanghai Animation Film Studio in 1957. He has plainly realised that a little coverage of the pre-war Wan […]

June 23, 2016 · 0 comments

By Andy Hanley. With Earth in ruins following a massive disaster, humanity has abandoned the planet along with their physical bodies, rebuilding their minds into an orbital data archive called DEVA. In the year 2400, DEVA’s central council detects unauthorised access. Someone on Earth is trying to hack into the system. To investigate the hacker’s […]

June 16, 2016 · 1 comment

By Andrew Osmond. Here’s a paradox. Even as When Marnie Was There, Studio Ghibli’s Last Feature Film (Probably), plays in British cinemas, a new animated feature bearing Ghibli’s logo opens in the festival circuit. This is The Red Turtle, directed by Michael Dudok de Wit, which debuted at Cannes before playing at another French event, […]

May 21, 2016 · 0 comments

By Jasper Sharp. At a time when digital releases from Pixar and DreamWorks had become the new monolithic style for American animation, the use of computers on such landmark titles from Japan as Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Mind Game, Appleseed (2004) and Howl’s Moving Castle was still very much in service of an instantly […]